The Female Nude : Art, Obscenity and Sexuality (Hardcover)

Preface to the Routledge Classics Edition??List of Images??Introduction??Part 1: Theorizing the Female Nude??1. Framing the Female Body? 2. A Discourse on the Naked and the Nude? 3. A Study of Ideal Art? 4. Aesthetics and the Female Nude? 5. Obscenity and the Sublime??Part 2: Redrawing the Lines??6. ‘The Damaged Venus’? 7. The Framework of Tradition? 8. The Lessons of the Life Class? 9. Art Criticism and Sexual Metaphor? 10. Breaking Open the Boundaries? 11. Redrawing the Lines??Part 3: Cultural Distinctions??12. Sacred Frontiers? 13. Pure and Motivated Pleasure? 14. Policing the Boundaries? 15. Displaying the Female Body? 16. Erotic Art: A Frame for Desire.??Bibliography??Index